Unlock the Highest Level of Professional Development

Academy Membership is our premium subscription level, created for leaders who take their personal and professional growth seriously. Membership gives you full access to a growing library of self-paced courses and resources - many of which were previously sold individually for up to £750 each - now available as part of your subscription at no extra cost.

Includes our signature masterclasses:

The Essential Directorship Masterclass
The Strategic Company Secretary
Mastering GRC Essentials
Invisible Coaching - the art of natural coaching

This is the place for ambitious directors, executives and senior managers who want to stay sharp, expand their capabilities, and lead with confidence.

Covering the fundamentals of management, governance and leadership, this collection is designed to help you build your own CPD programme or simply access the right resource when you need it. Whether you want structured learning or just-in-time support, your membership ensures you always have expert guidance at your fingertips.

Current subscription just £195 a year

This is what you get:

Courses

The Essential Directorship Masterclass

Gain the knowledge, skills and awareness required to become effective as a director and make a positive contribution at board level. Designed for new, aspiring and established directors, and governance professionals. How to become a director, roles responsibilities and behaviours of directors.

The Strategic Company Secretary

The company secretary is not a director, but plays a key role in supporting chairmen, boards and individual directors, helping them build successful organisations. Multi-media training programme designed for company secretaries, governance professionals and chairmen

Mastering GRC Essentials

In today's complex business environment, effective GRC is crucial for steering organisations towards success. Whether you're a seasoned professional seeking to enhance your skills or a newcomer eager to grasp the essentials, this comprehensive online video course is tailored to meet your needs.

Invisible Coaching - the art of natural coaching

An essential skill for managers, sales people, parents, teenagers, and all!

Learn to think and act like a natural coach. The person being coached should not be conscious of being coached - just more aware of issues and options, more open to change.

Resources

Aspiring Director's Foundation Pack

How to prepare for your role as a director and ensure you become more confident, more competent, more quickly. What to do when offered a directorship - and whether to accept.

The Virtual Board Meeting

This training simulation has been designed for directors, secretaries and senior managers to practise vital meeting skills, with the additional challenge of being physically separated.

The Zoom Meeting

This real-time learning exercise teaches meetings skills in a virtual meeting scenario. Additional features include: handling redundancies and pros and cons of a home-working strategy.

Imperial plc In-tray Exercise

This in-tray simulation tests individuals' people management skills in a "real-world" scenario where they are forced to sift through a complex mountain of information and make difficult decisions under pressure.

Prisoners' Dilemma

The Prisoners' Dilemma is a well known trust game isolates the components of trust and demonstrates the concept of win-win to bring greater understanding of the processes involved in building, maintaining, losing and regaining trust.

Rigger

This game aids communication and learning about managing practical problems in a high pressure situation. It is useful for drawing out the differences between managing a project and managing routine work.

Hollow Square

This game helps teams understand the impact of communication between those who develop plans and those who have to implement them, highlighting good and bad behaviours when planning, assigning or completing tasks.

New Ideas Toolkit

This toolkit includes tools ranging from classic brainstorming to morphological matrices and beyond, with clear instructions on how to use it along with suggestions for timing, materials and when it might be suitable.

Making It Happen

This 33 page guide and workbook contains practical exercises and useful advice designed to help you find your motivation, overcome procrastination and begin to make your future into reality.